The local coffee shop talk in Big Rock usually centered around sightings about Bigfoot. Beth, a lady who lived on the outskirts of town, felt like she was being watched. One morning as she was cooking bacon, she saw some black furry feet through the blinds at the back door. She figured the bacon smell was filtering down the street and had made someone hungry.
After a few minutes, the feet were gone. Beth opened the back door. The smell that hit her nostrils was horrible. It smelled like bad body odor. Beth called the police.
The police arrived at Beth’s house and found some large footprints by the back door. They told her there had been other reports of a large, furry man or a gorilla around town. They thought it could be a hoax since it was Halloween.
After other sightings of Bigfoot later in the day, the townspeople agreed that Bigfoot was just as curious about them as they were about Bigfoot, since he came through there just about every year.
Mary Bone has been writing short stories and poetry since childhood. Her work can be found at The Academy of the Heart and Mind, Literary Yard, Visual Verse, Active Muse Journal, Words of the Lamb and other places.
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